Embers and Extinguishment

There is a burn scar on Lin Jin's left arm, shaped like a half-broken ginkgo leaf. She is an ancient book restorer who specializes in treating burnt pages, but she cannot cure the PTSD left in her bones by the fire in 2003. Whenever there is a sweet and fishy smell in the air, she will retreat to the bathroom, just like the safe that broke when she was seven years old. Shen Xi is a firefighter and the former chief restorer of the Forbidden City. In the early morning when he knocked on her door, he handed her half a burnt ginkgo leaf: "The gap faces outward, don't let the fire in." The end of his left eyebrow was missing a section, and his back was burned by the fire in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, but he said: "Jin Zhi does not make the broken pieces disappear, but makes the cracks shine." Two incomplete souls, she taught him the patience to repair ancient books, and he taught her the courage to face the fire; she found a frequency in his pulse that was more effective than sedatives, and he saw the landscape that needed to be seen in her scars. Until the blood-stained book "The Book of Embers" appeared - the library fire in 2003 was not an accident, but a murder; her mother died not in the line of duty to rescue cultural relics, but to rescue the children sealed in the wall by cement. When the truth ignited a new flame, Shen Xi disappeared in the fire in the primeval forest of western Sichuan. All that was left to Lin Jin were the coordinates written in blood in the veins of the leaves, and a leaf with Morse code bitten out with his teeth. This time, it was her turn to be the one who rushed into the fire. Carrying the dying man on his back, he traveled through the 300-year-old ginkgo tree, using the repairing wisdom of "fighting fire with fire" to fight against destruction, and in the ashes at an altitude of 3,267 meters, he completed the ultimate golden restoration of love and revenge.